
LONG-TERM RELATIVE RATIO CHARTS – Energy SECTOR
Beginning with this post I began showing the relative ratios of all US equity industries vs. the SPX across their entire history. Posts will be grouped by sector, and each sector post will show all the relative sub-industries within it. I’ve generally tried to only…...

Oil Equipment & Services Have Never Been this Oversold in the Post WW2 Environment
Below I plot the 10-yr RoC in the FTSE Oil Equipment & Services Index along with the index itself. A decade is a logical period for look-back analysis and doubles as the anniversary of crude’s 2008 all-time high print of ~$145. I’ve…...

Crude: 1980-1990…2008-2018
Recall this mid-May post on the relationship b/t crude and gold. Therein, I also spoke about crude on its own, as follows: “What’s also interesting about crude since 2008 is how closely its cycle resembles the period from 1980-summer-1987.” I presented…...

Oilfield Services Attractive on Numerous Relative Fronts
One could spend a few hours cycling through charts of various US equity industries, both on an absolute and relative basis vs. the SPX, and find very little to get excited about. They simply all look the same – nearly…...